Director, Architecture Governance

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Your Team & Role

As a Director, Architecture Governance in the Chief Technology Office organization, you will collaborate with Global Technology and Operations and various functional areas, individual business units, corporate functions, and other control functions by identifying, monitoring, and managing risks associated with the use, ownership, operation, involvement, influence, and development/adoption of technology within an enterprise. In addition to technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem‑solving, communication, and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, inclusive leadership, and continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Typical Day

• Oversight and management of the end‑to‑end architecture governance program to help manage risks by ensuring architecture evaluation is done within the architecture governance processes. Evaluate architecture governance submissions to ensure alignment to architecture governance requirements. Maintain the enterprise product catalog.

• Identify, author, ope rationalise, optimise, and communicate governance program/capabilities to house new architectural patterns, product life cycles, and other architecture governance requirements.

• Identify, author, ope rationalise, optimise, communicate, and maintain enterprise architecture team processes (e.g., team way of working, Solution Architecture, Application Portfolio Management).

• Primary contact to field questions, support efforts, and help individuals navigate the architecture governance program and/or own activities related to the governance program or team processes (e.g., audit support, approval questions and product catalog management).

• Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts, products, or technologies. Exercise latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience in related fields.

• Significant technology and leadership experience, preferably in architecture, architecture governance and/or risk management.

• Demonstrated understanding of key IT concepts/processes such as Enterprise Architecture framework (principles, patterns, etc.), access control, open‑source management, data handling and protection, business continuity, IT risks & controls, security monitoring, technical taxonomies, and technology lifecycle management.

• Demonstrated experience with several of the following:
Service Now, Flexera/Technopedia, Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira/Jira automation, Miro), Power

BI, Microsoft Office Suite including Visio and SharePoint.

• Experience developing reports and dashboards and providing critical‑thinking summaries.

• Demonstrates strong ownership and can lead and work independently, leveraging diverse ideas and perspectives to the benefit of the organization; excellent problem‑solving skills.

• Experience working in an agile environment; ability to drive incremental change while navigating ambiguity.

• Significant understanding of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the role; deep understanding of the functional area and a competent understanding of the overall firm.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate sophisticated messages and new concepts to varying audiences.

• Objective, diplomatic team player with excellent collaboration, networking, and influencing skills, as well as credibility and commitment to building trust and developing relationships.

• Accustomed to managing multiple and unrelated efforts simultaneously.

• Demonstrated success in achieving specific, measurable, and concrete objectives aligned with business goals by tracking and reporting outcomes over a specified time.

• Continuous learning mindset with demonstrated aptitude for understanding strategic investments and new technologies.

Benefits and Compensation

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